This disc is vitually identical in content to
Version
A, other than the physical screen printing on the disc's
surface. It was mastered using an Asian release of the special
edition laserdisc. As with Version A, it opens with the Fox Home
Entertainment logo, and then follows with the Dolby Digital "City"
and THX laserdisc trailers, both in true Dolby Digital 5.1 surround
sound. You then get the menu page you see below (at top). From this
menu, you can chose to watch the film in either 5.1 or 2.0 surround
(it actually has both on the disc, and you can switch "on the
fly" using your remote). There's a single page of production
notes, and a chapter menu with 6 chapter selections (note that there
are actually 7 chapters in all). The image is letterboxed, with
English subs in red at the top (in the top black bar) and Chinese
subtitles in white at the bottom (again, in the black bar). The disc
also includes a brief "behind-the-scenes" featurette,
tagged on to the end of the film (from the laserdisc). Note that the
disc's screen printing is different, and of poor quality (especally
the color, which is red-shifted).
You can see screen shots from the disc below. Keep in mind that
when resizing them for the Internet, Photoshop tends to minimize
imperfections in the picture, so the images may make the video
quality seem better than it is. I would say that the quality here is
somewhat less than laserdisc (it is a copy, after all), but better
than VHS. |
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